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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
What's New at Arcadia
Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock
Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!
Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca
Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.
Announcements
Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!
Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.
A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.
Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.
Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!
Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.
Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman
Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.
West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark
Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.
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Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Mort -- "Stop! This is the Empire of Death."
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Cremains
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Even the dead can't escape foreclosure in suburban Detroit. Five bodies and the cremated remains of 22 people were evicted Friday from a funeral home in Pontiac. The remains from the House of Burns Memorial Chapel were delivered to the Oakland County medical examiner's office for storage. A medical examiner's administrator, Robert Gerds, said some of the cremated remains date to the 1990s.
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Media Reviews
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
One of our Taphophilia members has published a book!! Congrats!
Check out Rusty's new book HERE!
"West Springfield Massachusetts - Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark is a fascinating collection of tales based on Colonial headstones found in the picturesque cemeteries of West Springfield, Massachusetts. The book features information on early New England gravestone carvers, and includes over two hundred photos and illustrations, with over one hundred photographs of this Yankee folk art.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
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SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (AP) -- Dee Dee Warwick, a noted soul singer who won recognition for both her solo work and her performances with her older sister Dionne Warwick, has died. She was 63. Warwick died Saturday at a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey, said family spokesman Kevin Sasaki. He said she had been in failing health in recent months and that her sister was with her when she died.
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Funeral Industry
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 |
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For the thousands of professionals gathered in Orlando at last week's National Funeral Directors Association convention, the current economic slump has done nothing to dampen longer-term hopes pinned to the projected rise of the U.S. death rate as the Baby Boom generation passes away.
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Editorials
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
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The Tucsonans that time forgot
Opinion by Bonnie Henry
What lies beneath the office buildings and parking lots of Downtown Tucson is much of this town's history — and many of those who made it. • For decades, graves and bodies have been turning up during Downtown construction. • None compares, however, to the recent excavation of Tucson's National Cemetery, which took in the town's dead during the mid-1800s. • Learn about the painstaking process that went into excavating this particular burial ground — and why it's being called one of the country's largest historic cemetery exhumations ever. — Bonnie Henry
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Media Reviews
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski
Lake Claremont Press
Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under Ever wonder where Al Capone is buried? How about Clarence Darrow? Muddy Waters? Harry Caray? Or maybe Brady Bunch patriarch Robert Reed? And what really lies beneath home plate at Wrigley Field? Graveyards of Chicago answers these and other cryptic questions as it charts the lore and lure of Chicago's ubiquitous burial grounds.
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Media Reviews
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
Green-Wood Cemetery by Alexandra Mosco
Image of America Series
Arcadia Publishing
For generations, Green-Wood Cemetery has played an integral part in New York City’s cultural history, serving as a gathering place and a cultural repository. Situated in the historic borough of Brooklyn, the thousands of graves and mausoleums within the cemetery’s 478 acres are tangible links and reminders to key events and people who made New York City and America what it is today. The monuments read like a who’s who of American greatness and include the names of Leonard Bernstein, F. A. O. Schwarz, Charles L. Tiffany, Samuel Morse, and DeWitt Clinton, among others.
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Strange and Unusual
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
FORT PIERCE, Fla
Investigators say St. Lucie County firefighters who knew a paramedic took a man's severed foot from a vehicle crash site may face disciplinary action. Authorities said Friday those who never reported the misconduct are being investigated. Cindy Economou resigned after admitting she took the foot to train her cadaver dog to locate and follow the scent of decomposing human flesh.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Marian McQuade, an advocate of care for the elderly who founded National Grandparents Day after years of petitioning governors, members of Congress and presidents to support her cause, has died. She was 91. McQuade, who had 43 grandchildren, died Friday of heart failure at a nursing home in Hilltop, W.Va., her daughter D.J. McQuade Lancaster said.
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Tourism
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Newark, NJ
On Sunday, October 5th Jeffrey Bennett is going to be leading a walking tour of an upper class, Victorian cemetery in Newark called Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant is one of Newark’s two elite, Victorian Era Cemeteries. Except for the German-extraction Beer Barons, all of Newark’s 19th century elite lies interred in Mt. Pleasant. Come visit the Ballantines, the Kinneys, McCarters, Edward Weston, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Marcus Ward, Seth Boyden, John Fairfield Dryden, Franklin Murphy, Thomas B. Peddie, Charles Cummings and more in this cemetery where every family has a street named after it and every grave touching or artistic. The tour will meet at the front gates of the cemetery at 12:15 Sunday, October 5th. Parking is not available within the cemetery itself, but there is parking on the surrounding streets. The cost is $10 for first-time attendees. Since I want people to keep coming back, people who have already attended a tour do not need to pay, though I will accept a “donation.” For more information visit the website at http://www.newarkhistory.com/mtpleasantcemeterytour.html
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Celebrity Deaths
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
Coroner to the stars, Ronald Kornblum, dies at 74
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronald N. Kornblum, a former Los Angeles County coroner who performed autopsies on such celebrities as John Belushi, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, has died. He was 74. Kornblum served eight years as county coroner before resigning in 1990 amid charges of poor management. He died Tuesday at his home in La Canada Flintridge after a long illness, his family said.
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
By Robert King
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Mourners from around the country filed through the Tibetan Buddhist temple here Wednesday to bid farewell to a man they described as a friend, a freedom fighter and a high lama. Now they await his reincarnation, which they expect anytime. More than 100 people in a procession dropped yellow, blue and white silk blessing scarves at the feet of Thubten J. Norbu, a former Indiana University professor who was the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama.
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Taphophilia?
taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)
ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"
DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries
Taphophilia Facts
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Each year in the U.S., we bury 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, which includes formaldehyde
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Quote Repository
“Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.” - R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1
Grave Epigrams
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I with my offspring here securely rest,
God takes or leaves our comforts as is best.
Prepare my friends, to meet me on that shore
Where soul bereavements shall be felt no more. Dedham, MA 1821 |
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Taphophilia Thanks
Taphophilia (dot) Com would not be possible without the knowledge, experience and talent of DarkestWeb. From its conception and early development, DarkestWeb was faced with many challenges; from inspiring and motivating, to providing guidance and direction. The continued dedication and support has produced results greater than ever expected, and for this, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.
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